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Sinn Féin confirms Catherine Connolly's keepy-uppies video is not Al

They literally ruin everything they touch

Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.

I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor.

www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...

One of Columbia’s ‘best kept secrets.’ Can Rosewood sustain charm amid growth? The classic Columbia neighborhood looks to guard its charm amid broader growth across the city and seemingly inevitable change in the region.

I had the latest entry in the Communities in Transition series for @thestate.com. We took a look at Rosewood, the classic Columbia neighborhood that is working to retain its charm amid broader growth and change across the city and region. Tracy Glantz shot the pics.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs?

gotta remember to savor these little things

San Francisco Wants to Destroy a 96-Year-Old’s Defining Artwork

Public art is never permanent as long as people don’t continuously value the pieces and the reasons they were created in the first place. Even the odd and complicated pieces deserve love. (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...

YouTube video by Richland Library OFF BOOK: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

One of my favorite parts of author visits is the Richland Library "Off Book" recording. Here's the most recent one with @silviamg.bsky.social. We still want to know what @sgj.bsky.social thinks about his cameo in The Bewitching! youtu.be/EtL31zGFZhw?...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

What is happening? This is all posted by @thestate.com in the last five days.

this is truly an era of blather and balderdash. we are up to our eyeballs in claptrap and i for one have had just about my fill

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over “Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?

“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?

‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over “Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?

“'Columbia has a lot of talented artists,..performers, musicians...But when somebody rolls into town from another place, they will see public art, and they’ll say, ‘This is a creative place,’ and they’ll know that there are going to be lots of artists of all types in that place.'"
via @thestate.com

In this video, Tokyo-based printmaker Dave Bull shows the entire process of making a batch of woodblock prints from blank paper to finished print - in PPOV style (Printer’s Point Of View) - with each of the impressions happening in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted flow, of ten sheets per colour. Th Any Sufficiently Archaic Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic

A 90-minute video of making a batch of woodblock prints “from blank paper to finished print” from the printer’s POV. Relaxing & ASMR-adjacent. [youtube.com]

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who’d never heard of him before.

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online. That’s roughly a book a week. The list runs over 100 pages and he checked most of the books out of the local library. [openculture.com]

That’s what most people say to me.

I read it as multiple Spaghett are Spaghetti.

dawg how has it gotten WORSE

But do we really know for sure how many bs there are in blueberry?

YouTube video by Richland Library OFF BOOK: Elizabeth Rusch

I really enjoy the times I get to sit and ask a list of oddball questions to esteemed visitors to Richland Library for the Off Book series. Most recently, Elizabeth Rusch visited and talked about falling into ticks and her favorite USWNT players - youtu.be/_FKW55sLZuA?...

Mailing a regular letter a distance of 40 miles in VT now takes 10-13 days (routed through CT for "efficiency") if you're wondering how basic services are doing under this regime. Another great American institution strangled by conservatives.

Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert. To celebrate, this Tiny Desk set begins with t

Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert! Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. This is probably the only time you’ll run across the phrase “glockenspiel-forward” this week. [kottke.org]